Joan Palevsky

female, deceased (2006)
philanthropist, charitable organization, University of California Press, California Community Foundation, classicalliterature
Joan Palevsky, a former wife of Max Palevsky, was an investor and philanthropist who contributed to many charitable organizations during her...
Simon Goldhill

Simon Goldhill

male
Academic of the University of Cambridge, greek tragedy, tragedy, University of Cambridge, fellow, classicalliterature
Simon Goldhill is a professor of Greek Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge.<sup></sup&gt;...
Debra Hamel

Debra Hamel

female, 45 years old
Yale University, M.Phil., Doctor of Philosophy, Master of philosophy, classicalliterature, academic degree…classical language, Classical scholar
Debra Hamel is an American historian specializing in ancient Greece. Hamel was born in 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut. She graduated from Johns...
Cosmas Indicopleustes

Cosmas Indicopleustes

male
Byzantine writer, Byzantine geographer, Axum, monk, world, roman empire…classicalliterature
Cosmas Indicopleustes (literally "who sailed to India") of Alexandria was a Greek monk, probably of Nestorian tendencies. Around 550 he wrote the...

Paul Friedländer

male, deceased (1968)
University of California, Los Angeles faculty, From Berlin, California University, lecturer, German, Philologist…classicalliterature
Paul Friedländer was a German researcher for classical literature ("Klassischer Philologe"). He taught as a professor at the Marburg University (...
Etty Hillesum

Etty Hillesum

female, deceased (1943)
English, diaries, Jewish, hilversum, classicalliterature, The Netherlands in World War II
Ester "Etty" Hillesum (January 15, 1914 in Middelburg, The Netherlands-November 30, 1943 in Auschwitz, Poland) was a young Jewish writer whose...

Georg Anton Friedrich Ast

male, deceased (1841)
German, classicalliterature, Euthydemus, Friedrich Schleiermacher, University of Landshut, The Laws…Classical scholar
Georg Anton Friedrich Ast was a German philosopher and philologist. He was born at Gotha. Educated there and at the University of Jena, he became a...

Abraham John Valpy

male, deceased (1854)
Printer, British book publisher, reading, From Reading, Berkshire, Reading, Berkshire, Henry Estienne…classicalliterature, Classical Journal
Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854) was an English printer and publisher. He was the son of the Reading schoolmaster Richard Valpy. He is remembered in...
Máirtín Ó Cadhain

Máirtín Ó Cadhain

male, deceased (1970)
Irish-language literature, Short story writer, Modernism, nationalist, catholic church, Irish…classicalliterature
Máirtín Ó Cadhain was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century. Born in Connemara, he studied to be a teacher, but...
Lord Frederick Windsor

Lord Frederick Windsor

male, 30 years old
Oxford University, Training, Music journalism, Line of succession to the British throne, Magdalen College, Oxford, classicalliterature
Lord Frederick Michael George David Louis Windsor is an English financial analyst who is the only son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent (née B...